Do You Not Perceive It?
Do you really believe that God makes all things new? That He is making YOU new? Can you trust that He is making your marriage new? Making your job new? God promises to bring newness to all these things, and much more!
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs ... read more

God is a Giver.
Here in week three of Curating the Good, we are mediating on this truth: God gives good.
Just a little recap: We started with the truth that He IS good (if anything is good, it is because of Him, it is through Him). We explored the truth that He MAKES good (we pondered all that ... read more

God Makes Good
My virtual group is reading through the second week of Curating the Good. This week focuses on how God MAKES Good. God made the universe, out of nothing. "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth ... read more

There's Good Practice and Bad Practice
What we practice, we learn. When we don't know how to practice the right way, the right Teacher can help. My Teacher, the Lord, has had me in "contentment school" for a very long time.
I have longed for comfort, but He has given me painful, ... read more

Coming Home
I can remember Kindergarten, maybe a bit before that. Always, I wanted to know what it meant: Coming Home. My father was a Marine Corps officer; it seemed like our little family of four was all we had. We put down roots. Then uprooted. We went wherever we were sent.
My ... read more

Feeling Weary?
Lately, I've been feeling weary. Again. We have been here, in Birmingham, almost two years. Actually, it is 629 days, to be precise. According to a nifty website called timeanddate.com, 629 days can be converted to one of these units:
54,345,600 seconds
905,760 minutes ... read more

This week, I shared my new devotional with some friends here in Birmingham. This little PDF is called Curating the Good: Collecting & Displaying Evidence of God's Goodness. We are reading it together, daily—road-testing it, really. And Monday was the first day. I just loved how saving a Word ... read more

Hi! I’m Britta

I'm a work in progress. Lately, I'm trying to learn how to plant deep roots after a lifetime of military moves. Planting seems to be slow work for me!

Life on the move. Chronic and serious illnesses. Marriage struggles. At times, it has been hard to see God's goodness. But I’ve learned that CURATING the GOOD (collecting evidence of God's goodness and putting it on display)—this is a life-giving practice. Won't you join me? Read More…